Horizontal centrifugal machine



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Filed Oct. 28, 1938 v V jaw/6507 7ZZZJ'azZ/Z 5 6255 HORIZONTAL CENTR Pieter van Riel, Delft, Net er ands, assignor o N. V. Machinefabriek Reineveld, Delft, Netherlands, a company of the Netherlands Application October 28, 1938, Serial No. 237,530

2 Claims. (Cl. 233-22) Horizontal centrifugal machines having disout any danger of the rotor coming into contact charging means which comprise a knife or like with the stator. member with a chute attached thereto are gen-w The drawing illustrates, by way of example erally known. Owing to the properties of the only, an embodiment of my present invention. disintegrated material disengaged by the knife On this drawing:

from the inner wall of the .,r:entrifugal drum Fig. 1 is a vertical axial sectional view of a said material is frequently prevented from slid-- horizontal centrifugal machine, and

ing down on the chute, even when said latter Fig. 2 is a front view thereof.

has its greatest possible inclination. The angle The horizontal shaft '3 which carries both the of inclination of the chute is .limited by the M) motor armature 4 and the centrifuge drum which required length of the stroke of the knife as latter comprises the basket proper 5, base ID in the retracted or innermost position of the knife and counterpoise I2 is journalled in two bearings, the chute should still project beyond the edge 6, l the former of which is mounted in a cover of the discharge opening provided in the hous- 8 and the latter of which in the conical shaped ing in order to secure the removal of the matein end shield 9.

rial. The drum base 10 is flat, except for a central 1 The invention has for its object to overcome thickened boss for fixing the shaft end. In said drawback and to this end the lower part order that the centre of gravity ll of the drum of the chute is connected to the main part shall coincide with the centre of the bearing 1, thereof for pivoting movement about a substan-mzo the cylindrical drum-wall is extended beyond tially horizontal axis extending transversally to the base I!) and is there provided with a heavy the centrifugal shaft, said main part of the ring l2 which acts as a counterpoise. chute having such a large inclination that the The stationary housing 13 has a circular dismaterial discharged thereon will slide down uncharge opening l4 opposite to the base of the der all circumstances. The velocity of the mabasket. The knife, or cutting member l5 for terial on the chute therefore increases to such a scraping off the layer of solid material accumuvalue that it can slide out of the drum on the lated on the inner drum wall is arranged in. v hinged lower part of the chute even when the the upper part of the interior of the drum and knife-like member is in its innermost position is adapted to be radially moved towards and and the lower part of the chute has a relatively w y from t e drum W ll by m ns of a s rew small angle of inclination owing to its contact threaded rod Hi. The cutting member I5 carwith the edge of the discharge opening of the ries a relatively short chute I! which is rigidly housing. secured thereto and the bottom of which has In order to increase the space available for such an angle of inclination that also relatively the chute within the drum the base of said lat- 35.sticky material can slide down thereon under ter may be substantially flat and provided with the action of its kinetic energy and its gravity. a counterpose, for instance in the form of a Pivotally mounted on horizontal pins l8 exheavy ring. tending from the chute i1 is a second chute Said counterpose has advantageously such a which is adapted to discharge the disintegrated weight that the bearing of the drum shaft is material from the centrifugal over the edge of positioned in the centre of gravity of the drum. I the opening [4. In this construction the drum may be fixed on When the cutting member l5 assumes its upthe driving shaft, only two bearings being repermost position and nearly contacts the inner quired for this shaft, the centre of one of which drum wall the bottom of the chute l9 which coincides with the centre of gravity of the drum. may then be supported on the edge of the 'open- In addition to this simplification in the construcing l4 forms an extension of the bottom of tion a centrifugal machine according to my inthe chute l1. If, however, the knife 15 is by vention is suited for considerably higher speeds means of the rod I6 gradually moved away of revolution than the known machines, as, owing from the drum wall and consequently descends to the position of centre of gravity of the drum, the chute l9 rotates about its pivots it! relatively vibrations cannot occur. More particularly in to the chute l'l whereas its bottom still remains the case of electrically driven centrifugal main contact with the edge of the opening l4 unchines it becomes possible to mount the rotor til it assumes the position l9 when the cutting of the electric motor directly on the drum shaft, member I5 is in its innermost position. In said that is to dispense with a flexible coupling, withposition the inclination of the chute I9 is still sufilcient for securing the removal 01 the material falling down with a relatively high speed on the chute ll.

It is to be noted that within the scope of my invention the discharge chute may also be formed of more than two parts hinged to each other.

What I claim is:

1. A centrifugal machine including a basket formed with an outlet, and a knife removable radially of the basket for scraping the accumulated material from the interior ofthe wall of the basket, a chute inciudinc a section rigidly connected to the knife and having a dependinz open end leading toward the outlet of the basket.

open end of the second section extending through and beyond the outlet of the basket.

2. A construction as defined in claim 1, whereby the lower wall of the chute section rigidily connected to the knife and remote from the basket opening is inclined downwardly and outwardly toward said opening to facilitate movement of the material scraped from the basket wall.

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